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Sugar daddy and Mr. Darcy
- Just about everyone I know (that’s all of you my three friends and four acquaintances – dad doesn’t count because he is obviously biased) has been on my case that I should write fiction because they...
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Screening the Sacred
- While looking for some online reference material for an article I am writing, google lead me to a book called ‘Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film’ by Joel W....
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Hum dekhain gay …
As someone who read up on 20th century revolutionaries quite a bit – although my readings were for mainly non-revolutionary reasons – I used to cringe every time I spotted a finance undergraduate or...
View ArticleAll the symbolism that people say is shit
I read. I was a more voracious reader in my younger days, staying up till 4.00 am reading everything I can get my hands on. Now, I am more selective about what I read, takes a lot longer to read and...
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Tourism of another kind
Alain de Botton writes about the relationship between the anticipation of travel and its reality in his book ‘The Art of Travel’. Before traveling to a place, most people think about the amazing...
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James Franco doing things
As a self professed online stalker of the Renaissance man, I got hold of his short story collection Palo Alto quite late – two years after it was published. Sadly, the book did not turn out to be what...
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
As a reader, I am not particularly fond of the term ‘coming of age’. As a writer, I try not to use it at all because what can be more clichéd than using the phrase ‘coming of age’, but if one reads...
View ArticleThere is more to life than childish pursuit of happiness
There are more bad writers than there are good writers, just like there are more boring people than really interesting ones, it is like the law of nature – or something akin to it. What is tragic – at...
View ArticleEmail encounters of the other kind!
I get emails – almost anyone who exists in the virtual world gets emails – even if when they do not share that email address with anyone, they still get emails from Nigerian investor wanting to invest...
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The amazing escapades of a “dreadful human being”
Marketed as “a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being”, Worst.Person.Ever. is actually not that unworthy. Written by Douglas Coupland, a very prolific Canadian writer and visual artist, this...
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